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Wow - great paper! Very readable / accessible. I'm working on some stuff for NLP in materials science academic literature, but we haven't tried anything beyond the usual word embed…

Pretty compelling arguments. I do think that the ML / CS / etc. community is actually more open than other academic fields, and so this is definitely the right subfield to start in…

Good call. Decided to do the same.

SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boston, MA Freelance data science work (applied machine learning and NLP). I'm a PhD student at MIT in materials informatics (i.e. applied ML), and I'd lov…

If OCW is too advanced to start, try Khan Academy first. It's great for K-12 material.

I've hung out with Ahaan at school several times -- some people in the comments here are speculating that going to university this young might make it hard to adjust (socially), bu…

Another Gryphon! I think you might be the first I've seen on HN. A few of my friends did Nanoscience co-op and I've pretty much only heard good things (I did the non co-op stream t…

That sounds strange. Pretty much all the top STEM PhD programs (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc.) offer a liveable stipend and full tuition reimbursement with medical insurance. e.g. M…

I've never taken economics, but is it possible that this is sort of a combinatorial reason? Like, adding the N+1th person implies coordinating with N other people, so that's a quad…

1) Sometimes big life decisions are no-win scenarios: there isn't always a solution that leaves every party happy. 2) It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what you're d…

Yeah, I guess he can say a lot based on replays and Elo. Still, I feel like many people would feel awkward saying that they are better than their peers - even if it's true. Well, m…

The brevity and bluntness in his responses is pretty amusing. I'm surprised he so candidly rates his own abilities and the abilities of his peers - I feel like many people would do…

Pretty cool stuff, dude. I filled out the form (which, I assume, sent you an email). I'll be around Berkeley in January, so if you like chatting about science stuff, then that coul…

I skimmed through it, and most of the advice sounds pretty solid. However, I suspect that following all this advice at once is not humanly possible (or at the very least, leaves yo…

As others have said, $60k sounds steep for this. I wonder if these data science programs will catch on. Having done my bachelors in 'nanoscience' - I feel that these data science c…

Sounds really cool. Are there any technical articles/papers available for the public to read on what you're doing? Or are all the details (understandably) under wraps?

The head researcher here, Yi Cui, is a pretty baller dude. I met him at a PhD admit visitation weekend, and his group was the most popular by far. Some of the admitted students jok…

Love the creativity in this - reminds me of the book Ready Player One, except with less 80s references and much harder (well, in some sense) puzzles.

I have a nice, clean version that I wrote up in LaTeX, and another 'fancy' version that I did in Illustrator.

You're right, there are many people (including you) who benefit greatly from prizes. But I'm more concerned about the mindset of attendees (i.e. those that "play only to win"). It'…

Hey, this looks really great! Very clean layout. Looks like you have a typo under "competitor analysis" though.